Quotes about Thomas Carlyle

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

#Thomas Carlyle

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

#Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better,...

#Thomas Carlyle

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made...

#Thomas Carlyle

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all...

#Thomas Carlyle

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows,...

#Thomas Carlyle

Thought is the parent of the deed.

#Thomas Carlyle

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical...

#Thomas Carlyle

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

#Thomas Carlyle

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

#Thomas Carlyle

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

#Thomas Carlyle

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing...

#Thomas Carlyle